Croatia international Ivica Olic is facing a six to eight-week lay-off after an injury sustained in Bayerns 5-0 home win over Hamburg proved more serious than initially thought. After examining the player on Sunday, FCB chief medical officer Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt revised an initial diagnosis of pelvic bruising, indicating that the player had in fact suffered a partial rupture of a tendon in the hip area.

Olic sustained the injury in the act of scoring Bayerns fifth goal, as he lunged to direct Holger Badstubers header over the line and collided heavily with HSV centre-back Jeffrey Bruma. The latest setback comes as a severe blow to the much-liked 31-year-old, as he had only just returned from a long spell on the sidelines after surgery to repair meniscus and cartilage damage to his left knee. For Ivica, a second-half sub on Saturday, the game against his former HSV team-mates was only his second competitive appearance for Bayern following a nine-month lay-off.

The Bundesliga will retain its "50+1" rule, preventing private ownership of a majority share of any club. The Standing Court of Arbitration has ruled that the regulation, which is meant to ward off sudden funding surges as have taken place at Chelsea and Manchester City, will continue to be implemented.

The rule had previously contained an exception, that any private contributor or company with activity in a club for 20 years or more as of January 1, 1999, could own a majority share. That cut-off date has now been eliminated, opening the door to wealthy private investors in the long-term future.

"The verdict is in overall terms a success for the clubs and corporations of the League association. The bottom line is: the 50+1 rule is retained in principle," DFL (German Football League) President Dr. Reinhard Rauball said according to Financial Times Deutschland.

"In professional German football, investors will continue only in exceptional and limited cases to have a majority stake in a club. We need not fear the Spanish, Italian or English rules."

Furthermore, Rauball added that the regulation would help distinguish German clubs from their foreign counterparts, and in a positive way.

"The Bundesliga thus retains its distinctive character and can continue to focus on the factors that have in recent decades contributed greatly to its success: stability, continuity, priority of competition and worldliness."

Currently, only Bayer Leverkusen (owned primarily by pharmaceutical company Bayer AG), and Wolfsburg (owned primarily by Volkswagen) are the only Bundesliga clubs of which a majority stake is controlled by a private enterprise. However, the lifting of the cut-off date means that in the long-term future, this could change.